Dropping PECI patches

[Joel Stanley]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 18:09, Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> Thanks for letting me know this. Also, thanks a lot for carrying the
> out-of-tree PECI patches in OpenBMC kernel tree so far.
>
> Can I submit updated PECI patches to OpenBMC upstream if I'm gonna add
> it back? Linux upstreaming isn't ready yet because configfs support
> should be implemented to address subsystem maintainer's comments but it
> needs at this moment in OpenBMC kernel tree to keep developing
> dbus-sensors support.

This was the status back in January. I think it's time to find someone
to complete the work on PECI so it can be merged upstream.

Once those patches have been posted, we can merge them into the
openbmc tree while we wait for them to be merged into mainline.

>
> Thanks,
> Jae
>
> On 12/1/2019 8:35 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > Hi Jae,
> >
> > As I have not seen an upstream submission of PECI for a number of
> > release cycles (since January, over 10 months ago) it will be dropped
> > from the OpenBMC kernel tree.
> >
> > If you still want this code in the kernel you will need to make a new
> > upstream submission.
> >
> > This aligns with the OpenBMC kernel development process, where a patch
> > is carried to assist developers who are actively working to get their
> > drivers merged upstream
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joel
> >